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Mickey’s Goal
Last night was the last game for my eight-year-old son’s soccer team. It was the final quarter. The score was two to one, my son’s team in the lead. Parents surrounded the playground, offering encouragement.
With less than ten seconds remaining, the ball suddenly rolled in front of my son’s teammate, Mickey O’ Donnel. With shouts of “Kick it!” echoing(回响)across the playground, Mickey turned around and gave it everything he had. All around me the crowd erupted(沸腾).O’ Donnel had scored!
Then there was silence. Mickey had scored all right, but in the wrong goal, ending the game in a tie. For a moment there was a total hush. You see, Mickey has Down syndrome(综合症)and for him there is no such thing as a wrong goal. All goals were celebrated by a joyous hug from Mickey. He had even been known to hug the opposing players when they scored.
The silence was finally broken when Mickey, his face filled with joy, hugged my son tightly and shouted, “I scored! I scored. Everybody won! Everybody won!” For a moment I held my breath, not sure how my son would react. I need not have worried. I watched, through tears, as my son threw up his hand in the classic high-five salute and started chanting, “Way to go Mickey! Way to go Mickey!” Within moments both teams surrounded Mickey, joining in the chant and congratulating him on his goal.
Later that night, when my daughter asked who had won, I smiled as I replied, “It was a tie. Everybody won.”
68.What was the score of the soccer match?
A.Two to two, equal to both the teams.
B.Three to one in Mickey’s team’s favor.
C.Two to one in the opposite team’s favor.
D.Everybody won because of Mickey’s goal.
69.The underlined word “hush” in paragraph 3 means .
A.cheer B.cry C.laughter D.silence
70.What did the author worry about when Mickey scored and hugged his son?
A.The result of the match would fail his son.
B.His son would shout at Mickey for his goal.
C.Mickey would again hug the opposing players.
D.His son would understand Mickey’s wrong goal.
71.The purpose of the author in writing the passage is .
A.to tell a joke to make readers laugh.
B.to suggest we should not mind losing.
C.to show enjoying a game is more than winning a game.
D.to present his son’s fine qualities of understanding others
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“Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.”
This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown citizen who lived in Rome in AD 52 wrote it.
We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can change our lives.
But have all these developments really improve the quality of our lives?
Picture this : You’re rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How calm and happy do you feel?
Inventions have speeded up our lives so much that they often leave us feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have not telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead a simpler life.
One family in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin,10 and Tomas,7,spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones.
The grandmother, Lyn, said, “It was hard physically. But not mentally.” She believed life was less materialistic. “The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes,” she said. The boys said The boys said they found less to fight over,such as their computer. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a “trendy(时髦的), beer-drinking granny, to one who cooked things”.
Here are some simple ways to beat the stress often caused by our inventions!
Don’t be available all the time. Turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day. Don’t check your e-mails every day.
Don’t reply to somebody as soon as they leave a text message just because you can. It may be fun at first, but it soon gets annoying.
72.The passage is mainly about .
A.problem with technology
B.improvements of our life with technology
C.the important roles technology pays in out everyday life
D.major changes which will be likely to happen to technology
73.The writer quoted (引用) what a citizen in ancient Rome said at the beginning of the story in order to .
A.share a truth about life
B.tell us what life was like long time ago
C.make us wonder what causes such a thing to happen
D.point out that you experience some big problems and they may be the same
74.Why did the family choose to spend some time in a 1940s house? Because .
A.they liked to live a simple life.
B.they were curious about how people lived without modern inventions.
C.they were troubled by modern inventions.
D.living in a different time would be a lot of fun for them.
75.What do you think the underlined word “available” in the 1 st suggestion offered by the writer means?
A.Busy on line. B.Free.
C.Be able to. D.Be found by others.
B
Read the advertisements carefully. Then answer the questions that follow.
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60.You may find the above advertisements .
A.in a store window B.in a school magazine
C.in a newspaper D.on a company notice-board
61.The position of a(n) is a part-time job.
A.florist B.artist C.preschool teacher D.dental nurse
62.Which of the following is the most important for the childcare job?
A.Cooking skills. B.Childcare experience.
C.The ability to start work in two weeks. D.The ability to work well with other people.
63.The office cleaners will be required to work about hours a week.
A.5 B.10 C.15 D.20